Emerging Components: "SBIR for eGov Initiative

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Emerging Components "SBIR for eGov Initiative

• Brand Niemann, CIO Councils Emerging Technology
  Subcommittee and U.S. Environmental Protection
  Agency
• 2003 National Association of Seed and Venture
  Funds
• Conference Innovations in Early Stage Investing
• Baltimore, MD, November 2-5, 2003

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The Message

• The Federal Governments FY 2004 IT Budget is
  about 58 Billion!
• It is over 100 Billion including state and local
  governments.
• There is a Role for This Community of Practice in
  Our Emerging Components "SBIR for eGov
  Initiative.
• You Are All Invited to the January 26th, 2004,
  Emerging Components Quarterly Conference at the
  White House Conference Center.
• See http//componenttechnology.org

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The Federal Chief Information Officer Council Has
An Architecture and Infrastructure Committee

• The Co-Chairs are
• John Gilligan, Air Force CIO, and
• Kim Nelson, EPA CIO.
• The Co-chairs of Its three Subcommittees are
• Governance Bob Haycock, OMB, Chief Architect,
  and Roy Mabry, Advisor to the Air Force CIO.
• Components Ren Cahoon, NARA CIO, and Bob
  Haycock, OMB, Chief Architect.
• Emerging Technology Mark Day, EPA Deputy CIO,
  and John McManus, NASA Enterprise Architect.

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The Emerging Technology Subcommittees Key
Messages

• Supports Federal Agencies and partners as they
  assess new technologies because
• Organizations have limited capacity of expertise
  and resources and
• Individualized vendors marketing to multiple
  agencies is not cost-effective nor possible for
  new, small innovative companies.
• Provide intergovernmental process for pilot
  projects and technology assessment initiatives in
  support of
• Vendor clearinghouse
• Government-wide reusable components and
• Federal and intergovernmental lines of business.

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The Emerging Technology Life Cycle
Note Our purpose is to try flatten the curve.
Visibility
Five to 10 years Less than two years
Semantic Web
Web-Services-Enabled Business Models
External Web Services Deployments
Extensible Business Reporting Language
Internal Web Services
Note Non-Web Services omitted.
Maturity
Technology Trigger
Peak of Inflated Expectations
Trough of Disillusionment
Slope of Enlightenment
Plateau of Productivity
Source Gartner as of July 2003.
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The Emerging Technology Life Cycle

• Managing the IT Innovation Life-Cycle Proposed
  Stages/Schemas, Draft, May 27, 2003, with minor
  edit on July 2, 2003 at http//xml.gov/draft/etLif
  eCycle.htm
• 1. Identification
• 2. Subscription
• 3. Stewardship
• 4. Graduation
• 5. Budgeting
• 6. Acquisition
• 7. Maintenance
• 8. Retirement/Replacement
• Maps the proposed elements of the ET process to
  the elements of the XSD for OMB Circular A-11,
  Exhibit 300.

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Components

• The CIO Councils Architecture and Infrastructure
  Committee (AIC) has as an essential part of its
  mission to foster the identification,
  maturation, use, and re-use of Enterprise
  Architecture Components and component-based
  Enterprise Architectures in government. An
  Enterprise Architecture component is defined as a
  self-contained business process or service with
  predefined functionality that may be exposed
  through a business or technology interface.
  Interoperable, shareable, re-usable Enterprise
  Architecture Components support the Presidents
  Management Agenda principles of customer-focused,
  result-oriented, and market-based government.

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Components

• Leadership
• Mark Forman, Former OMB CIO and CIOC Chair
• E-Gov 2003 Conference, June 11th
• Reusable components are at the heart of the
  Federal Enterprise Architecture and E-Gov.
• John Gilligan, USAF CIO and AIC Co-Chair
• E-Gov 2003 Conference, June 11th
• Standard components like E-Forms are coming out
  of the Emerging Technology Subcommittee for use
  across the government.

See the FEA Service Components Reference Model
Version 1 See pages 5-7 at http//www.feapmo.gov
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The SBIR Innovation Model
Private Sector Investment/ Non-SBIR Federal
Funds (before/during/after!)
PHASE I Feasibility Research
PHASE III Product Development to Commercial Market
PHASE II Research towards Prototype
Source Dr. Kesh S. Narayanan, Director
Industrial Innovation, NSF.
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Top 10 Reasons to Seek SBIR / STTR Funding
Opportunities

• 10. Over 1.6 Billion available.
• 9. NOT A LOAN - no repayment.
• 8. Provides recognition, verification and
  visibility.
• 7. Potential leveraging tool to attract venture
  capital/other sources of .
• 6. Fosters partnerships (e.g., large
  corporations, academia).
• 5. Creates jobs and stimulates local, state and
  national economies.
• 4. Provides seed money to fund high risk
  projects.
• 3. Intellectual property rights are normally
  retained by the small business.
• 2. Small business concerns are recognized as a
  unique national resource of technological
  innovation.
• 1. To make economic and societal contributions to
  America.

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SBIR for eGov and Componenttechnology.org

• Fostering a Component Technology Marketplace for
  eGovernment with the SBIR/STTR (September 11th
  Announcement)
• http//www.componenttechnology.org/
• The SBIR for eGov Pilots Team
• Maurice Swinton, Assistant Administrator, Office
  of Technology (SBIR/STTR), US SBA, 202-205-6450,
  maurice.swinton_at_sba.gov
• Brand Niemann, Emerging Technology Subcommittee
  and US EPA, 202-566-1657, niemann.brand_at_epa.gov
• Susan Turnbull, Emerging Technology Subcommittee
  and US GSA, 202-501-6214, susan.turnbull_at_gsa.gov
• Tony Stanco, Associate Director, eGovernment,
  Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute,
  George Washington University, 202-994-5513,
  stanco_at_gwu.edu
• Dan Loague, Executive Director, National
  Association of Seed and Venture Funds,
  405-824-5549, Dan_Loague_at_nasvf.org
• More to be added.

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SBIR for eGov and Componenttechnology.org

• Inform, encourage, and assist agencies with
  eGovernment Component Technology topics that
  would be useful to their agencies and others
  starting at the SBIR Agency Meeting on September
  11th.
• Set as a goal for FY 2004 the funding of about 1
  of the SBIR/STTR projects in support of
  eGovernment Component Technology.
• Conduct the regular Emerging Components
  Conference Series starting October 20th at the
  White House Conference Center
• 2003 NASVF Conference, Presentation, November
  2-5, 2003, Baltimore, MD (http//www.nasvf.org/con
  ference).
• Second Quarterly Emerging Components Conference,
  January 26, 2004, White House Conference Center.
• Web-Enabled Government 2004 Conference, February
  3-5, 2004, Washington, DC. Proposed Session
  (http//www.e-gov.com).
• FOSE 2004, Emerging Component Conference within
  the FOSE Conference, March 23-25, 2004,
  Washington, DC (http//www.fose.com).

Will include vendor interoperability
demonstrations (c.f. http//www.xmethods.net/wsid/
).
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SBIR for eGov and Componenttechnology.org

• Forms
• Company/Entrepreneur Proposing eGovernment
  Solutions
• Government Agency Looking for eGovernment
  Solutions
• Venture Capital/Angel Investor Willing to Fund a
  Company/Entrepreneur Proposing eGovernment
  Solutions
• Government Agency with a SBIR Program Willing to
  fund a Company/Entrepreneur and Hand-off the SBIR
  Project to the Venture Community in Phase III
• Other Interested Party Seeking to Help

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SBIR for eGov and Componenttechnology.org

• Steps to Take
• Register at Componenttechnology.org.
• Ask questions and receive answers.
• Participate in the regular Emerging Components
  Conference Series
• Next is January 26, 2004.
• Participate in the monthly Collaboration
  Expedition Workshops at the NSF
• Next is December 9, 2003 (http//ua-exp.gov).

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SBIR for eGov and Componenttechnology.org

• October 20th Emerging Components Conference at
  the White House Conference Center
• Highlights Two SBIR Agency eGov Pilots Have
  Reached Stage 3 and Are Significantly Profitable
  Already!
• NSFs Vivisimo Clustering Search Engine - Raul
  Valdes-Perez, President, Vivisimo, Inc.
• Image Matters userSmarts - Kevin Backe, SBIR
  Program Manager, Army Corp of Engineers, and
  Yaser Bishr, CTO, Image Matters, LLC.